jobloffski
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Problem the sequels face
Making Episode 7 means you need a BIGGER BADDER THREAT, which devalues the previous six movies. Going to be hard to balance.
Nope, it means you bring back all the iconic villains of the franchise - Vader, Maul, Palpatine, Dooku. And find a way to build a story around them.
They'd probably treat current movie canon as movie canon. And the clone wars episodes (which are official canon) have resurrected Maul thusly,
His sheer hatred of all things Jedi kept his sectioned uper half alive and he crawled away, to be rediscovered by Obi Wan Kenobi years later, in a dark cave, insane, barely clinging to life, with spider like legs carrying him around as he attacked and feasted upon any living creature unwary enough to enter his lair (the whole thing was pretty freaky, and rather Shelob's lair-like).
The attachment of a pair of robotic legs and a teaming up with a brother who had been searching for him for years and an absolute, utterly psychotic intention of revenge upon Jedi, and depending on what the clone wars does with the character, there is a very easily extrapolated basis for a threat to a new republic and an equal to the Darth Vader type antagonist here.
Maul: The Jedi thought they had killed me. They killed my beloved master and destroyed everything we sought to build. I have never forgotten the suffering I experienced because of the jedi. And the time has come, Not to seek to rule the new republic, but to destroy everything that rose from the ashes of the old one."
A new republic would be taken by surprise by attacks led from the perspective of revenge for deeds of generations past that could involve the sudden appearance of armed forces that have been built up for decades, waiting for the time to strike. The peace of a new republic would not be prepared for ovewhelming forces striking at them.
There doesn't have to be a lot of time spent in exposition at the start. The crawl could refer to despite there being many years of uninterrupted peaceful existence for the New Republic rumours have always persisted of dark and dangerous shadows
looming over the Post-Empire era of the galaxy. The efforts of the reconstructed Jedi Order to locate the sources of the rumours have always proved to be in vain. Jedi Masters XXXXX and ZZZZZZ,, on a routine patrol mission to the debris strewn AAAARRRGGGHH!!!! System expect no surprises,..
So, er, they discover a massive fleet, manage to get a partial message home before being destroyed, the fleets from AAAAAARRGGHH!!! and elsewhere make their move. War has been declared on the New Republic, who know little about it, except for the partial message. Various planets try to work out what is going on as the fleets head their way, they are massively outnumbered, they know it, and when the feleets arrive, halfway through the films to wreak terrible havoc throughout the galaxy, by then we have been introduced to various main players, in various locations, and mass evacuations takep lace, many dont make it past barricades and a dogged, disparate band of main players meet at a secret rendezvous point to plan, with Jedi, and domestic forces how to respond.
Bit blah blah, but as always, off the top of my head.
Anyway, Maul can clearly feature, and aged Luke might feature, etc. At best guess, as owners of the previous continuity material Disney are not likely to piss on their own chips and disregard what has gone before, more likely it will be (heh ) that established stories will be extrapolated from and dead jedi characters may make cameos, as force ghosts, and where there are unclear aspects of the Prequels, Disney may seek to incorporate badly executed ideas into better storytelling, and overall make the prequels seem a little 'better' ultimately, because of a wider context being created (maybe even reference to Padme's Death being Anakin Skywalker's fault, if he is referred to and has become a hero to the new republic after his redemption at the end of Jedi, particularly if Luke needs a storyline and something to create doubt in all he has believed in, creating something among many things that would deal with the worst situation you can encounter if you read a script and deduce that it really doesn;t work properly cos there's just a bunch of stuff happening, not properly motivated because "There is no conflict")
Ahem...
< Message edited by jobloffski -- 31/10/2012 11:51:50 AM >
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